The 81-year-old has led the Chicago-based civil rights organization he founded in 1971. The announcement comes six years after he revealed he began outpatient care for Parkinson's disease.
Jackson, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King, broke with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1971 to form Operation PUSH - originally named People United to Save Humanity - a sweeping civil rights organization based on Chicago's South Side.
Jackson has helped guide the modern civil rights movement on a wide variety of issues, including voting rights and education.
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